US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 24 for "Polyline contour representations for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,835, issued on June 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Polyline contour representations for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Dong Li (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ioan-Alexandru Sucan (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Victor Puchkarev (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode or an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a polygon representative of the shape and location of a first object may be received. A polyline contour representation of a portion of a polygon representative of the shape and location of a second object may be ...